Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-10 Thread david peahi
In my neck of the woods, critical locations often exist in the middle of nowhere, resulting in underserved facilities, where best effort networks such as metro Ethernet cannot be trusted to remain available 24x7x365. Many times, during prime business hours, I will see a telco metro Ethernet

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-10 Thread Matthew Petach
This *was* a troll, right...? On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:55 AM, david peahi davidpe...@gmail.com wrote: In my neck of the woods, critical locations often exist in the middle of nowhere, resulting in underserved facilities, where best effort networks such as metro Ethernet cannot be trusted to

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-10 Thread Jared Mauch
Matthew, On Sep 10, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Matthew Petach mpet...@netflight.com wrote: This *was* a troll, right…? I suspect it wasn't. There's some people who equate various types of services with others. I've been following this thread with some head-scratching going on. Some folks think

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-10 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 10/09/2012 21:43, Matthew Petach wrote: If service is critical enough to me that 20 second hiccups make a difference, I'll find two providers to provide connectivity um, what do you mean, two providers? to the location via relatively cheap waves This *is* a troll, right...? just sayin'

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-10 Thread Matthew Petach
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 10/09/2012 21:43, Matthew Petach wrote: If service is critical enough to me that 20 second hiccups make a difference, I'll find two providers to provide connectivity um, what do you mean, two providers? to the location

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message CAE_aTPPCPXMN-Rx2zRjG7FcbyDSqaT=gr7hc6+zhrj0pmts...@mail.gmail.com , david peahi writes: In my neck of the woods, critical locations often exist in the middle of nowhere, resulting in underserved facilities, where best effort networks such as metro Ethernet cannot be trusted to

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-09 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/8/12, Måns Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org wrote: Subject: Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch? Date: Just the fact that BFD had to be reinvented shows that there is ample reason to prefer the steady-train-of-frames-with-status of SONET/SDH over perhaps-nobody-sent

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-09 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch? Date: Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 01:15:35AM -0500 Quoting Jimmy Hess (mysi...@gmail.com): On 9/8/12, Måns Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org wrote: Subject: Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch? Date: Just

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Måns Nilsson wrote: Still, the stupid f€%€/# that make prices for linecards made me go GE instead of OC48 for the most recent deployment. In Sweden, both vendors claim about 6 times as much, per megabit, for SDH line cards. The once-in-a-lifetime that happened here (took

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-09 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Will Orton w...@loopfree.net writes: I've considered using J's PE-4CHOC3-CE-SFP (OC3 emulated SAToP), then I could do it all with gig-e underneath. Does anyone make a cheaper OC3 circuit emulation module or box? Most likely the customer wouldn't believe such a thing is possible and we'd

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-09 Thread Dan Shechter
OT, what is the _expected_ latency on each hop/ADM in the SDH/SONET network? HTH, Dan #13685 (RS/Sec/SP) The CCIE troubleshooting blog: http://dans-net.com Bring order to your Private VLAN network: http://marathon-networks.com On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Robert E. Seastrom

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-08 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch? Date: Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 10:50:31PM +1000 Quoting Julien Goodwin (na...@studio442.com.au): A few of the engineers at $DAYJOB still try and claim SONET is easier to troubleshoot, but that hasn't been my practical experience

RE: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-07 Thread Adam Vitkovsky
Does anyone make a cheaper OC3 circuit emulation module or box? Maybe Cisco ME 3600X 24CX Switch or Cisco ASR 903 Router adam

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-07 Thread Julien Goodwin
On 07/09/12 02:38, Will Orton wrote: Having much more experience with ethernet/packet/MPLS setups, we are trying to get the client to admit that 1g/10g waves running ethernet with QoS would be as good as or better in terms of latency, jitter, and loss for their packet data. So far

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-06 Thread james jones
On the surface this makes me want to cry. I could be missing something as well. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Will Orton w...@loopfree.net wrote: We've run into an issue with a customer that has been confounding us for a few months as we try to design what they need. The customer has a

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-06 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 06/09/2012 17:38, Will Orton wrote: The customer has a location in the relative middle of nowhere that they are trying to build a protected OC3 to. Not sure if I see the problem here. Show them the bill for an OC3 service, and then show them the bill for the equivalent ethernet service.

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-06 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 06/09/2012 17:38, Will Orton wrote: The customer has a location in the relative middle of nowhere that they are trying to build a protected OC3 to. Not sure if I see the problem here. Show them the bill for an OC3

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-06 Thread Will Orton
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 06:00:37PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: Not sure if I see the problem here. Show them the bill for an OC3 service, and then show them the bill for the equivalent ethernet service. This usually works for me. If they want to pay for OC3 when there's no compelling reason

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-06 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Will Orton w...@loopfree.net wrote: . I suppose they were all built directly on the fiber (maybe with WDM but no layer1.5-2 muxing) and the provider was always the one who handled protection switching? or protection at the optical layer isn't as predictable for